Example sentences of "[be] do for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 2 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 3 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 4 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 5 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 6 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 7 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 8 | In these the selection has been done for the trainer . |
| 9 | Nothing had been done for the women who were exploited by prostitution . |
| 10 | This has been done for the Shell Better Britain Campaign 's excellent ‘ Getting Help ’ guide . |
| 11 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 12 | Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies . |
| 13 | But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all . |
| 14 | In the intricate world of Asian business , such things are done for a reason . |
| 15 | Another way might be to raise your hand — a bit more tiring if some are so engaged in their work that they do n't stop what they 're doing for a couple of minutes . |
| 16 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |
| 17 | I do n't like the advertisements they 're doing for the telephone now though . |
| 18 | to know is they raised er the question about the er counts we 're doing for the Caernarvon link |
| 19 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |
| 20 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 21 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 22 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 23 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 25 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 26 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 27 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 28 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 29 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |